If you were
navigating in a deep forest, how helpful would it be to have a view from above?
We will introduce the Puzzilla.org descendants viewer, recognize patterns and
methods for finding work that remains to be done, and discuss basic concepts
that new researchers need to understand to find missing relatives.

Bill Hartenfounded UNIConnect in
1997 and is the creator of the UNIFlow process definition language, process
tracking database, and UNIFlow quality compliance engine. He is known globally
for being on a team that invented the GEDCOM format used to exchange
computerized genealogical information and campaigning around the world for its
establishment as a standard, resulting in its use in almost every genealogical
database program developed since 1985, including many hundreds of independent
software products worldwide. He has lectured widely, consulted, and taught
advanced courses on LIMS, informatics, and genealogical computing around the
world. He has consulted on informatics practices by invitation of the Russian
State Historic Archive at their repository in St. Petersburg and published
recommendations on informatics practices at the request of the US National
Archives in Washington D.C.

He
was on a team that invented the high-performance database technology used in
the LDS Church’s huge FamilySearch genealogical database on CD and is
recognized in the database community as a world expert on database
architectures for extreme computing requirements. He has developed several
high-performance engines for matching complex genetic profiles and genealogies.
In an experimental system, his matching engine was able to search a simulated
copy of the FBI’s national criminal DNA database of 50 million samples in 0.1
seconds.

He
holds US patent 6904412 for an invention that uses artificial intelligence
concepts to implement a comprehensive legal and regulatory compliance and
workflow engine for the mortgage industry, enabling and documenting compliance
with all federal requirements, plus the bewildering different requirements of
all 50 US states. He is active in presenting and publishing papers in the
laboratory and genealogical technology communities. He earned an MS degree in
Computer Science and BS in Accounting from Brigham Young University in 1977, is
aSun-certified java
developer, and has completed post-graduate work in artificial intelligence at
the University of Utah.

Following the keynote presentation from 9:00 to 10:00
a.m., two blocks of four classes each are offered that cover topics of interest
for beginning, intermediate, and advanced family history enthusiasts.

Registration
is not required for this free seminar. The Riverton FamilySearch Library is
located in the LDS Riverton Office Building at 3740 West Market Center Drive.
The facility is near the intersection of Bangerter Highway and 13400 South,
just east of The Home Depot.